Famitsu's Japanese chart figures are now in for 6th - 12th January, revealing that Nintendo has once again managed to snag all top ten positions.

Pokémon Sword and Shield are still sitting comfortably at number one, making this the ninth consecutive week in a row the two titles have held the position. It was a relatively quiet week elsewhere, allowing Ring Fit Adventure to launch itself back up the chart into second place.

Here are the top 10 (first numbers are this week's estimated sales, followed by total sales):

Below we have hardware sales for both this week and last week combined (last week's charts didn't include hardware figures, so it appears Famitsu has released something of a bumper update this week). Here they are, followed by lifetime sales in brackets:

Ryan can list the first 151 Pokémon all in order off by heart – a feat he calls his ‘party trick’ despite being such an introvert that he’d never be found anywhere near a party. He’d much rather just have a night in with Mario Kart and a pizza, and we can’t say we blame him.

I'll be honest, although I'm a fan, it's gotten kind of boring and predictable seeing Nintendo and Pokémon curb stomping the competition for several weeks. Hopefully PS4 and its games will put up a real fight this year.

We as Nintendo fans are basically reliving the Super Nintendo Entertainment System Generation all over again and I am very happy. The Nintendo switch has been dominating ever since release and I don't see that train slowing down anytime soon.

@cool_boy_mew
Stadia doesn't have a planned Japanese release yet. How does a company that makes most of its money from Japan expect that to go down? Especially since the reason they're not supporting the Switch are "low Japanese sales numbers" for YS VIII despite it doing well in the West.

All that controversy was exactly as I expected it to be; a very few number of crybabies. They're part of every Pokémon launch though. Sw/Sh aren't perfect, in fact each Pokémon game has something undesirable about it, but it's still a damn good Pokémon game and it's great to see this beat the likes of CoD, GTA, RDR, or Destiny any day.